Scenes that one occasionally see in Hollywood movies came alive, as a good part of the nation, glued to news channels, prayed for the ‘re-arrival’ of a five-year-old Prince. Well, he was five when he fell in the 60-ft-deep pit, six when he came out! No one would ever want to spend their birthday inside a dark cavity. But, almost every one would love it when an entire nation wishes him/her. The irony however, was such that the birthday boy himself did not even know that he had become the talk of the town, rather, of the country.
A walk down the roads from my ‘new town’ to my ‘old village’ was enough to convince me that the Indians were desperately in need of some positive news. The TV mechanic shops had a flood of people around it watching the army try hard to get the little six-year-old out of darkness, literally. The motorists, for once, were not complaining of the jams that the crowd caused. Last time, someone saw this many out on the roads catching a glimpse of television screen was perhaps when Sachin Tendulkar was going berserk against the Pakistani bowlers at the 2003 world cup. For once, the nation was rejoicing, and the reason was not cricket!
As the jawan brought Prince out wrapped in a white blanket, shouts of joy and celebrations en masse was just a matter of time. A little tap on the jawan’s back with a stick by his senior officer. The Prince was alive and ready to celebrate, finally, with the nation. Noise of the fire-crackers could not quite match the one that followed Indian victory against Pakistan, but sure sounded sweeter. Proxy cake-cuttings ensued and ‘vote of thanks’ rose to the heavens, even as Prince’s mother did the latter to the nation.
'Prince'- the name itself had no caste or religion! He could have been a Hindu, a Sikh, a Muslim or a Christian! Many are yet to know about it. I don't even want to! All that mattered was that he was an Indian and a six-year-old at that. The nation wept together, the nation bit its nails together, the nation prayed together, the nation finally celebrated together!!!
Happy Birthday, Prince. Long Live the Prince!
7 comments:
was watchin the entire live coverage of the rescue operation on tv...was so happy that i cried out of joy wen prince finally came out!!!
Yeah!!That was really a mind blowing incident!It was all joy when the Kid came out!!:)
That was such a traumatic thing!! Do you remember a mallu movie about a similar thing? Urvashi and Jayaram were in it..their kid falls down a hole and she's also rescued by digging a tunnel...a very good movie, really.
Malluti was the name of the movie... i agree... a very well made movie indeed!!! We had a discussion about the similarities in the incident and the movie!!!
It truly was an incident to remember..wat with the entire nation prayin for tht child !
uve captured the feelings well on ur blog! gud goin!
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